Man vs Nature

Huge stone in the sky stuck and cursing us.
Strapped in place and spinning
trapped upside down like I was once
on an amusement park ride with an angry
old lover at the controls.

A meteor. An asteroid. Dis-aster on
a tracked descent - got loose
from its safe(for us)haven.
It's place in The Hammock;
a white spider spun it
to hold all the heaven's in place.
I saw her do it. I watched her lowering
down, coming off the sky late one night
years ago. She landed on my car antennae.
That's how I know.

This may be the one
or may not be - that's what the experts say.
Destructive or it might just land cold
and bored and lonely; longing back at the cosmos.
Either way, its fall will be beautiful to watch.
Its fall is of great interest.

Fall water fall wind fall land fall
you don't mind falling water
then rain - then add salt and
a half a teaspoon or so of carbon
and, that's us. There you go.
Falling all the time,
we all do - walking's just a fall
corrected over and over. It's really
just postponed. Same as all the swings
falling both ways, same as all the birds;
fight and flight become the same thing.

But what do we do about the meteor? Both
vegetarian's and meat eater's want to know.
It's cause for concern. We'd be derelict
if we did nothing. Still. It will be
beautiful to watch it while it's falling.